Akkasdagi (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Anatolia, Turkey (39.4° N, 33.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 33.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kizilirmak Formation, MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• Late Miocene, Middle Turolian, MN 12

•the Akkasdagi tuff is Ar/Ar dated at 7.1 +/- 0.1 (Antoine and Saraç 2005)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white tuff

• The tuffs were settled as pyroclastic flow
• pinkish white tuffs

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: bulk,

• apparently only describes new collections; previously collected material is in the Natural History Museum of Paris.

Primary reference: N. Kazanci, S. Sen, G. Seyitoglu, L. Bonis, G. Bouvrain, H. Araz, B. Varol and L. Karadenizli. 1999. Geology of a new Late Miocene mammal locality in central Anatolia, Turkey. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 329(7):503-510 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60534: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.05.2006, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Tubulidentata indet. Huxley 1872 aardvark
 Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon sp. Schlesinger 1917 proboscidean
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta cf. eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
"hipparions": reported by earlier workers as Hipparion gracile
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
Ceratotherium neumayri Osborn 1900 white rhino
"rhinoceros"
Stephanorhinus pikermiensis Toula 1906 rhinoceros
Acerorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
or: cf. Palaeotragus
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937 antelope
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
"gazelle" compared to G. pilgrimi, G. capricornis, and G. deperdita
Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
 Rodentia - Muridae
cf. Occitanomys provocator de Bruijn 1976 mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Byzantinia sp. de Bruijn 1976 mouse
Byzantinia cf. hellenicus Freudenthal 1970 mouse
 Rodentia - Spalacidae
Spalacidae indet. Gray 1821 mouse